Fund Groups

Faculty Initiatives Fund

Goal: Help faculty members develop adventurous research and scholarly projects that enhance the university and lead to larger endeavors, research breakthroughs, external funding opportunities, or unusually creative works.

Houston Solutions Lab

Goal: The Houston Solutions Lab is a vehicle to draw Rice researchers and City of Houston departments together for mutually beneficial research. This program is how Rice is participating in a national network of City-University research partnerships called the MetroLab Network.

InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards (IDEA)

Rice Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) New Equipment Proposals - 2018

The Shared Equipment Authority (SEA) will have approximately $250,000 available for new instrument acquisition. We invite the science and engineering community to submit suggestions for equipment that they believe would be of great value as shared research infrastructure.